An Australian woman has woken up after a serious surgery to find herself speaking with an Irish accent.
And turns out, it happens to hundreds of people a year.
Foreign Accent Syndrome is medical condition in which patients develop speech patterns that are perceived as a foreign accent that is different from their native accent.
It usually results from a stroke, but can also develop from head trauma, migraine or developmental problems.
But poor An Gie McYen found out that you can get it from tonsil surgery too!
The TikTok user is claiming that one day after her tonsillectomy, she woke up with a full-blown Irish accent.
An Gie isn’t Irish, she's Australian.
She has never been to Ireland, and has no Irish family.
An Gie specifically set up a TikTok account to document her journey - see for yourself!
In some of her follow-up clips, you can hear bits of her original Australian accent.
Three days in, she said:
“There are no traces of Aussie twangs anymore.
“Today I tried as hard as I can to talk normally, and no, it’s full Irish.”
Things would gradually get better or worse, depending on your viewpoint.
“My accent is not as thick as it was last week. In terms of how I am coping, I am definitely still in the third stage of grief, and the last two days were not pretty,” she said on her Day 9 video.
But we sit here, 13 days removed from the surgery and her latest upload has her chatting away to the camera in an accent that is definitely not Australian.
Some people were accusing her of faking it to get TikTok famous - but An Gie addressed those in a fiery response.
"Unfortunately it’s not fake. I bloody damn hope that my Aussie accent is coming through, as it’s what I’ve had for the last 20 years,” she said.
“I hope you learn something from my journey and spread awareness about this."
